Improved sitting-harness



iiinird f (gratta @anni @ritira Letters Patent No. 93,047, dated Jul/y 27, 1.869.

IMPROVED BITTING-HAARNESS.

The Schedule ref-erred to in these Letters Patent and making pari: of the same.

To all whfom 'it may concern:

Be it knownV that I, BENJAMIN F. BREwsTnR, of

'Noi-wich, in the county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bitting-Harness; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactA description .of the same, reference beings had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecication.

My inventioir consists in a novel construction of hitting-harness, provided with 'an' elastic or yielding check, arranged upon the crupper-strap, and as here inafter more fullyv described,

'Referring tothe accompanying drawings- Figure 1 represents my improved hitting-harness, applied to a horse, illustrating -its action during the natural resistance offered by the horse;

Figure 2 represents a longitudinal view; and

Figure 3, a horizontal section of a detached portion oi' the same.

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A is the bridle;

B, the saddle; and

O, the back-strap of a hitting-harness, of the ordinary construction, and having the usual bitting-reins a a a, passing back from the bits.

Instead of being secured to stationary rings of the saddle B, or to a dumb jockey, however, as is generally tl1e case,.thc said bittinglreins a are passed through guide-rings, or over pulleys thereon, and are secured to rings c, which are connected by straps, o r I otherwise, to a yieldingryoke, b, of a spring-check attachment, so as to allow a yielding of the check when the horse lowers his head.

Said spring-check is secured rmly upon the backstrap C, lengthwise thereof, and immediately behind.

the saddle. v,

This spring-check consists of a hollow cylindrical shell or case, D, containing a transverse yoke, b.

Said yoke b is tted'to slide back and forth through longitudinal slots i in the case, and over a fixed guide-rod, f, arrangedin the axial centre of the cylin-` drical case, and is so actuated by -means of a spiral spring, s, as to exert a constant resistance to the downward movements of the horses head, through themedium of the said hitting-reins a.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, -is- The arrangement of the spring-holding case D, on the crupper-strap C, in combination with the girth B, bridle A, and reins a a a, substantially as shown and described.

Witnesses Fnnnn. HAYNES, A. KJNNIER.

BENJ. r. BRnWs'rEn. 

